Press release
Cholera surges in Sudan’s White Nile State, more than 292,000 children at risk in Kosti
PORT SUDAN, 27 February 2025 , – More than 500 children are among the 2,700 cholera cases, that have been reported in Sudan’s White Nile State between 1 January and 24 February 2025, according to health authorities. The outbreak has already killed at least 65 people including ten children. In response, UNICEF, tog...
Press release
Over Three Million Children at Heighted Risk of Cholera and other Deadly Diseases in Sudan
PORT SUDAN, 17 September 2024, – The second round of the oral cholera vaccination campaign started in Kassala yesterday to prevent the further spread of the deadly disease. An outbreak of cholera was officially declared on 12 August 2024 by Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health after a new wave of cholera cases was ...
Article
No more Open Defecation!
What’s Open Defecation? It’s simply, no sanitation! No toilet to call your own, though you have a phone! When mighty, young, old or frail must walk a mile, for helpless, all become, when nature’s call come! Behind the bush or by the river side they hide, swallowing their pride! The landscape does spoil, for everyw...
Photo essay
Making Sudan open defecation free to ensure healthier communities
Open defecation, where people defecate outside instead of in a toilet, is a major challenge in Sudan with over ten million people resorting to this practice and resulting in grave public health implications including potential disease outbreaks. Sudan ranks number one in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the practice of open…
Report
Water, sanitation and hygiene
This report provides a comprehensive overview of UNICEF Sudan’s water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities and results in 2019. In Sudan, more than twelve million people do not have access to safe water, which compromises their health and makes them vulnerable to disease outbreaks, like cholera. Around twelve...
Photo essay
Tippy tap transforms Zakiya's family
Zakiya lives in El Fasher town in North Darfur with her husband and eight children. Six months ago, as part of the Urban Water for Darfur Project, Zakiya installed a new latrine in her home and a tippy tap, a simple device for hands free hand washing. The Urban Water for Darfur Project aims to attain sustainabl...
Article
Adolescents leading the prevention of Chikungunya
UNICEF teams are currently on the ground in Port Sudan in the Red Sea State, to support communities in combating and preventing the spread of the Chikungunya fever. Chikungunya fever is spread to humans through an infected mosquito called Aedes aegypti . The most common symptoms are high fever and joint pain. UNIC...
Article
Port Sudan versus Chikungunya
When Zeinab Bashir Abdallah, a resident of Port Sudan in the Red Sea State, contracted the Chikungunya fever, she knew exactly what she needed to do to survive. Chikungunya fever is spread to humans through an infected mosquito called Aedes aegypti. The most common symptoms are high fever and joint pain. “I person...
Report
Sudan drinking water safety strategic framework
The aim of the Sudan Drinking Water Safety Strategic Framework (SDWSSF) is to provide strategic direction to the scaling up of access to safe drinking water (SDW) across Sudan. This will be through providing drinking water systems that are appropriately designed which effectively protect the drinking water at all ...
Report
Urban water for Darfur project 2016
Access to adequate supplies of good quality drinking water continues to be limited among many rural and peri-urban communities in Sudan, despite several decades of water improvement programmes. The provision of drinking water of acceptable quality and quantity remains to be a major public health need and concern i...